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What Farm Bill Conservation Can Achieve and a Path to Leveraging Results

What Farm Bill Conservation Can Achieve and a Path to Leveraging Results. A Midwest farm group’s perspective: Trends, impacts and opportunities. High commodity prices and greater commodity production High land prices and high credit demand Massive soil erosion. What we’re witnessing.

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What Farm Bill Conservation Can Achieve and a Path to Leveraging Results

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  1. What Farm Bill Conservation Can Achieve and a Path to Leveraging Results A Midwest farm group’s perspective: Trends, impacts and opportunities

  2. High commodity prices and greater commodity production High land prices and high credit demand Massive soil erosion What we’re witnessing

  3. Western Minnesota wind erosion, May 2011

  4. Southern Minnesota erosion. May 2011

  5. Big Springs Hatchery, IA

  6. Big Springs Hatchery, IATwo inch rain in late May 2011

  7. What we’re witnessing cont. • Intensive consolidation and concentration of ag sectors impacting farm landscape • Very powerful corporate ag lobby • Unbalanced playing field • Demand for working lands programs • Interest in farming

  8. The 10-Year Budget Baselines for 2012-2021 • $702 billion = SNAP • $80 billion = Crop Insurance • $70 billion = Commodity Program • $63 billion = Conservation Programs • $6 billion = Everything Else

  9. What we need out of the conservation title • Tools and resources • Working lands suite • Land retirement and protection programs • Conservation compliance

  10. Conservation Stewardship Program in MN • 3,384 applicants • 1,578 contracts - second in the nation • $21 million to maintain and enhance conservation - top in the nation Survey results • 95% felt CSP enabled them to do conservation • High satisfaction, would recommend to a neighbor • Lack of transparency • Inequitable distribution • Should be in next Farm Bill

  11. Politics – Organizing Making More Possible

  12. Organizing

  13. Opportunities - Suggestions • Long-term investments: Passage to Implementation to Usage to Results • Building power: The importance of state and regional-based groups • Groundswell – 101 organizing “Many faces, Many places”

  14. Many faces, Many places PLAETZ FARM, AUGUST 2009 WASHINGTON D.C. JAN. 2007

  15. Many faces, Many places SCHWERMANN FARM, JUNE 2008 PETERSON FARM, AUGUST 2008

  16. What Do We Want?

  17. Adam WarthesenFederal Policy Organizeradamw@landstewardshipproject.orgwww.landstewardshipproject.org612-722-6377

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